The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1887-04-14
FANNIE Il. WARD.
Maine Matters,
EwS tNp GOSSIP FROM ALL OVER rIIH STAT
MAINE VETERAN ASSOCIATION.

MAINE VETERAN ASSOC lAlltbN.
Those veterans living in Boston and vicinity
whose love for their native state He'd them to
organize the Maine Veteran Association. Ell
joNed their eleventh reunion at Parkrr> re-
Gently. There was nearly one hundred and
>eventy-tive ladies and gentlemen present. and
all entered heartily INTO the pleasures of the
occasion. Col. W. j. Gii>pir presided. and
Qulrtcrma>tcr ). &. small acted a> toa>tmt>tcr.
There We're present many veterans we'll known
in military circles. After dinner the Wrhrr
Quartette sang several selections, and Miss
Jessie Eldrdge. the reader. won hearty cncorc>
by her elocutionary ability. Col. 4. \. smith
of the First Maine Heavy Artillery opened the
speech making i'll response to toa>t-"'lhe
State of Name.
Representative Edward +. Fisk, in respond
ing for Massachusetts. said that this State
ought to follow Names excellent example
and pass Il biennial session amendment. lie
thought that act would give more satisfaction
than anything else The Legislature could do.
Past Commander George II. Patch aroused
the enthusiasm Of the veterans hy his stirring
tribute TO the ''Old Flag" He recalled the
touching incidents that marked the release of
soldiers from Southern prisons when they had
caught sight of the llat for which they had
fought 'Tho>e men," he said. ''kncw thr
value of that llas." He closed with an appca!
to the veterans to do all they could to make the
Government redeem it, pledges to The soldiers
who had fought for lis preservation.
Aljutant Harrison Hume Of the Eleventh
Maine said There are 5000 men in Maine
who stood up 10 he shot at They fought tiat
the Mississippi might hc kept open to the sea;
that this country might be one and n>cparabc:
that this might De the richest nation ON the
globe. There are IL million men who know
what this Government is worth, what it cost
and how it must be maintained in all its purity
and greatness. These men mean that the City
Halls of the great cities shall not be made ,en>
of thieves. They mean that the veterans shall
not be dragged down by the name of 'pauper.'
They mean that these old soldiers shalt be taken
from the poorhou>c>. lhcy also mean to eN-
press their opinion of the man and party that
would keep them there in very emphati;
manner when the next Presidential election
comes arounu.'
Gen. Nickerson said that, while he did not
believe in forcing Il pension of - per month
upon every veteran, whether lie wanted it or
not, he did think that every old soldier who
lost limb. or his health, or his business stand
ing, or his ability to earn il living. should re-
ceve a pension if he SO desired.
Addresses We're also made by tol>. Drink
water and q. NJ. Atwood. Dr. Jackson of Fall
River and Gen. >tarhoard of Boston, III. +.
BRYANT. Col. King and others. Boston journal.
THE CAPTURE OF GRAVES.
Graves, the murderer Of the Maine Game
Wardcn>, was rauyh, in the Post Office at Oak
land, Cal. lie called there for letters, though
employed i'll Il hotel ut Anahcim 300 miles
away. Graves was interviewed after his cap
llre and said he could not in any way account
for his being traced. He thought that he had
worked matters so that no person. outside of
relatives, would ever be able to hear where he
was. He is confident that somebody has be
traycd him, but who he cannot tell. He con-
fesses the homicide. and, in telling the story
of the affair, constantly asserts that the whol.
act was committed in self-efencc. He never
would have left Maine, he says. if he bad
thought that the feeling in Washington county
was as he has since learned, but he thought
that he would he iynched by the mob if he re-
manned there and gave himself up. lie >cri-
ouSly considered the question of standing trial,
but thought that the people would be so inlur~
lated that they would at once string him up.
Now that the affair is all over. and the people
have all cooled down. he says that he i, per-
fectly willing and ready to 90 back and stand
trial. He has kept closely shaved from the
day he left Maine.
The friends and relatives of Graves. while
feeling badly over his capture. are determined
to make a hard fight in the courts, and declare
the act was done in srlt-'irfcnre. and have let
ters written by Graves giving Il description OF
the whole affair. Washington county men say
there is Il strong feeling that Graves WAS fore
ed into a tight, and that Mcfarland will chang"
his story at the time Of the next trial.
An Associated Press dispatch from Bangor
SAYS: \ reporter who visited Graves home
said that, at the request of her father. Mrs.
Graves read aloud the dispatch from Oakland
to the effect that her hlI>bani admitted that he
was the man wanted, and as she did 50 lnani-
tested no more apparent feeling than she would
have done had it related to some common hil>i-
ness matter of the family. She said it was Il
poor place to come to for new as she had Moth
ing to tell, and that she had no idea as to the
whereabouts of her husband since the murder
and she should as soon have expected to hear
that he had been found in Maine aS In CaIifor-
| MIA
SHORT STORIES.
Mr.. +. A. Robbins has in his employ 4 ser
| want whose continued and increasing faithful
| ness entities him to notice. The servant is Il
| dog, and nearly every day he can be seen plod-
| ding down Silver street, carrying numerous
articles that have been intruSted to his keeping.
| '''The dog is coming," telephones Fred, and a
| upon the sidewalk to welcome her intelligent
| canine friend and to relieve him of his burden.
| [Waterville Sentinel.
Winfield Goodrich of Brighton, has one of
| the smartest girls in town, and that is saving a
great deal. She is but X years old, and has
worked in the woods all winter with her father,
taking mans place. She has taken the entire
| care of her team of four oxen. and hauled logs
| from the woods to the mill at West Athens
working many days when most men would
| have pronounced it very rough to be on the
road. [Pittsfield Advertiser.
| For rapidly getting on in the world, the palm,
| Is awarded to young man in Palmyra. This
spring he has been elected selectman, an as
SCISSOR of taxes, an Overseer of the poor, a
fence viewer and field driver, and supervisor
of schools, and has married! Bangor Com
| mercial.
A cat and dog in box together without any